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Writing International Student Mobility in Africa (WISMA)

About

This British Academy funded project, Writing International Student Migration in Africa, aims to build capacity toward sustainable development of an enriching research environment in Africa. The revised workshop program (due to COVID-19) provides the participants with mentoring and training for publishing in international top-ranking journals, build their capacity for research innovation through a grant writing session, and extend their connections to global research communities. The collaboration will generate knowledge on international student migration in Africa and be followed up by a set of papers by participants.

Team

This Africa-UK collaboration is comprised of members from the African Network for Internationalisation of Education based in Kenya, The Open University, UK and London School Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.

African Collaborators

Prof James Otieno Jowie

Dr. James Otieno Jowi is the Principal Education Officer at the East African Community (EAC) Secretariat (composed of Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan and Tanzania) where he develops and coordinates regional education programs. He is the founding Executive Director of the African Network for Internationalization of Education –ANIE – a pan-African organization focused on internationalization of higher education in Africa. His research and publications focus on internationalization, governance and leadership in higher education with a focus on Africa.

UK Collaborators

Prof Parvati Raghuram

Parvati Raghuram is a Professor in Geography and Migration at the Open University, UK. She has published widely on re-theorising migration of international students and skilled migrants, particularly women in the information technology (IT) sector and medicine. She has written for policy audiences having co-authored research papers for a number of think-thanks and international organisations.

Dr Gunjan Sondhi

Gunjan Sondhi is a lecturer in Geography at the Open University, with prior postdoctoral experience in leading universities in Canada, Singapore and the UK. Her research interests focus on the interplay between gender, work, education and migration/mobility with an emphasis on international student and highly skilled mobility. This work has stretched across South and Southeast Asia, North America and the UK/EU. Gunjan has contributed to international level policy dialogues in relation to international student and skilled migration.Markus Breines is an Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is currently working as the social science lead on the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) project in Harar, Ethiopia. Markus was trained as a social anthropologist at the University of Sussex and has previously worked the Open University and the University of Edinburgh. His research interest includes migration and mobility, higher education, child health, as well as ethnic relations in sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr Markus Breines

Markus Breines is an Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is currently working as the social science lead on the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) project in Harar, Ethiopia. Markus was trained as a social anthropologist at the University of Sussex and has previously worked the Open University and the University of Edinburgh. His research interest includes migration and mobility, higher education, child health, as well as ethnic relations in sub-Saharan Africa.

Webinars

We host a programme of events across two strands: research seminars, and workshops for ECRs. Recordings of previous seminars are available on the webinar page.